Constantino Ayala
Ms. Lindell
College Writing
26 January 2014
Why are There So Many of Us? Overpopulation is still an issue in the world. More people are being born than there are people who are dying,and that is an issue. There has to be a constant balance between the two, so there is a good balance between supply and demand on earth in terms of resources used. With greater availability of food for years now, it has really had a toll on the amount of humans now living and still increasing in number. With more resources being used up, this allows for further destruction of wildlife and wilderness areas to be destroyed which has an impact on the ecosystems surrounding the area. With longer life expectancy and continued birth rate increasing, …show more content…
In the late 1940’s the population of china was well over five hundred million inhabitants. Two decades later in 1970 the population had reached around eight hundred million inhabitants. This is mainly due to the a lack in population policy and improvements in healthcare across the country(shulin,1989). According to shulin, china’s struggles to control population growth have been profound, “ China has experienced three "baby booms" in the past four decades: the first between 1949 and 1957, the second between 1962 and 1975, and the third from 1986 to the present’’. This is an alarming amount of baby booms in the course of thirty to forty …show more content…
This is something that i think should not have been changed and for good reason. Denyer and wan state that,’’The one-child policy reshaped Chinese society - with birth rates plunging from 4.77 children per woman in the early 1970s to 1.64 in 2011’’. This has been a great way to conquer overpopulation in china and now they want to tone down a bit? Such measures should not be played around with and the one-child policy should stand alone in china with no adjustments. In china there have been instances where people have committed forced abortions in order to comply with federal law. Such actions should not be taken and birth control options should be given out more openly to the public(denyer,wan). The one-child policy may not be favored by some but people have to understand the issue that overpopulation could cause in harming the world. Overpopulation adds pollution which can deteriorate the ozone layer of the earth which can be catastrophic when completely
Ms. Lindell
College Writing
26 January 2014
Why are There So Many of Us? Overpopulation is still an issue in the world. More people are being born than there are people who are dying,and that is an issue. There has to be a constant balance between the two, so there is a good balance between supply and demand on earth in terms of resources used. With greater availability of food for years now, it has really had a toll on the amount of humans now living and still increasing in number. With more resources being used up, this allows for further destruction of wildlife and wilderness areas to be destroyed which has an impact on the ecosystems surrounding the area. With longer life expectancy and continued birth rate increasing, …show more content…
In the late 1940’s the population of china was well over five hundred million inhabitants. Two decades later in 1970 the population had reached around eight hundred million inhabitants. This is mainly due to the a lack in population policy and improvements in healthcare across the country(shulin,1989). According to shulin, china’s struggles to control population growth have been profound, “ China has experienced three "baby booms" in the past four decades: the first between 1949 and 1957, the second between 1962 and 1975, and the third from 1986 to the present’’. This is an alarming amount of baby booms in the course of thirty to forty …show more content…
This is something that i think should not have been changed and for good reason. Denyer and wan state that,’’The one-child policy reshaped Chinese society - with birth rates plunging from 4.77 children per woman in the early 1970s to 1.64 in 2011’’. This has been a great way to conquer overpopulation in china and now they want to tone down a bit? Such measures should not be played around with and the one-child policy should stand alone in china with no adjustments. In china there have been instances where people have committed forced abortions in order to comply with federal law. Such actions should not be taken and birth control options should be given out more openly to the public(denyer,wan). The one-child policy may not be favored by some but people have to understand the issue that overpopulation could cause in harming the world. Overpopulation adds pollution which can deteriorate the ozone layer of the earth which can be catastrophic when completely